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ACM Off-Campus Study Programs

Designed with a strong liberal arts perspective, ACM offers programs around the world, providing students with an interdisciplinary educational experience, personal attention, independent projects, and diverse viewpoints and ways of learning.  Select a program below to learn more:

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Japan Study
Tokyo, Japan

Flag Mexico

Mexico Summer Program: Service Learning & Language Immersion
Mexico City, Mexico

Flag Tanzania

Tanzania: Ecology & Human Origins
Dar es Salaam & Tarangire field site, Tanzania

Flag United Kingdom

London & Florence: Arts in Context
London, England & Florence, Italy

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Chicago Programs

Chicago, Illinois

Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities
Chicago, Illinois
Oak Ridge Science Semester
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Member colleges

  1. Beloit College
  2. Carleton College
  3. Coe College
  4. Colorado College
  5. Cornell College
  6. Grinnell College
  7. Knox College
  8. Lake Forest College
  9. Lawrence University
  10. Luther College
  11. Macalester College
  12. Monmouth College
  13. Ripon College
  14. St. Olaf College

Off-campus study

Tyler Quinn As privileged Americans, few places in the world offer a more foreign backdrop for us to learn from than India. Each day, I was constantly reminded that my growing comfort with rickshaws buzzing by in the streets, or samosa vendors calling out to us hoping we would stop in to spend a few rupees, were but a couple of minute parts to the complexities of that mesmerizing country. What better way to expand your comfort zone, than to remove yourself from it altogether. The ACM India program gives you the ability to reform the foundation of your character, and I struggle to imagine any student regretting their decision to study and live in India.

—Tyler Quinn, India, Fall 2007

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Who we are

The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) is a consortium of independent, liberal arts colleges in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado.